Improvement in ships  lamps



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Ships Lamps.

Pate'ntedJa. 6,1874. l

n' @fi/75M UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES E. A. HINRIOHS AND WILLIAM STAEHLEN, OF BROOKLYN, NEW

YORK, ASSIGNORS TO CHARLES FfA. HINItIOHS, OF SAME IJLAGE.

' IMPROVEMENT IN SHIPS LAMPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 146,180, dated January 6, 1874; application iiled June 13, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, CHARLES F. A. HIN- Rrcns and WILLIAM STAEHLEN, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Ships Lamps, of which the following is a specificabiOIH This invention relates to a fountain-lamp suspended in gimbals to allow the lamp to hang vertically, regardless of the vessels movement.

Lamps with ,central burners have been hung in a gimbal to accommodate the movement ofu a vessel or otherwise. Fountain-lamps have also been employed; but, in consequence of the burner projecting at one side of the fountain, this class of lamps has not been adapted to use in vessels, because of the diculty in applying the gimbal so that the lamp will hang even, regardless of the weight of oil in the reservoir. We overcome this difficulty by applying the gimbal around the reservoir or fountain, so that the same will be supported in a given position, Whether full or empty, and the burner or the burner and reector that project from one side of the reservoir are counterpoised, so that the lamp will remain in au upright position.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a side view of the lamp with the reflector in section; and Fig. 2 is a plan of the lamp, partially in seetion.

The reservoir c is of the ordinary characten-such as` that shown in the patent of C. A. Kleemann, reissued March 29, 1870-with a valve in the bottom. The reservoir is inverted wh en being iilled; and when placed into the lamp, the reservoir passes into the cylinder b, from which the tube c leads tothe lamp-burner ol, the part-s of which are of any ordinary character, according to the oil that is to be burned. A locking-lip, 1, over the ange of the reservoir, prevents the reservoir being raised until it is rotated to bring the notch of the ilange around to the lip 1. The reector 7c is supported by an arm, k', that enters a loop upon the cylinder b of the lamp, and at the upper end there is a swivel-ring, l, that is made toreceive the upper part of a glass chimney. This ring is open 011 one side, and yields to the chimney, and, being upon the swivel-rod l', the ring turns freely to one side sufficiently to allow the chimney tobe passed up into the ring, and swing back over the burner, and then moved down to place. The gimbal is made of an elliptical ring, m, attached at 2 and 3 to the cylinder of the lamp-reservoir, and the arms or half-ring u extends from the bracket n. to the joints or pivots 4. and 5, of the center of4 the reservoir toward the burner, so as to partially counteract the weight and leverage of the burner and reflector. The elliptical ring allows a free movement of the parts without contact of the ring with the cylinder b,- but to prevent bruises, a plate, 9, is applied at each side of the cylinder b. In the base q of the lamp there is 'a weight, r, that is placed, or is largest, at the side opposite the burner, so as to counterbalance the burner and relector, and cause the lamp to hang evenly. This weight is ted lines in Fig. 1. The half-ring n is received into a notch in the place by the side plates 7 and a screw, 8, that passes parts and strengthen them. The end of the bracket n is made as a tapering dovetail, entering a corresponding recess in a wall-plate. These parts wedge firmly together, but can easily be disconnected.

The reector 7c may surround the chimney, where it is desired to direct the light downward, the ring l being held by a standard above the reflector.

We do not claim a spring-ring to surroiuid the chimney and receive the joints of a suspended reiector. Neither do we cla-im two separate spring-guides bolted to a retiector to sustain the chimney.

We claim as our invention- 1. The segmental spring-ringl at one end of the rod l', forming a swivel-connection beA tween the ring and the reflector lo, as and for the purposes set forth.

2. A fountai lamp in which the burner is at one side of the fountain, and connected and these are slightly forward shown by dotl bracket a', and is held in endwise into the arm to connect the thereto by zn tube, in combination with u gimbal surrounding the fountain only, and 2L Counterpoise to the burner7 substantially as set forth.

3. The lamp reservoir and burner, supported by a gimbz, in which the joints are placed nearest to the burner, to aid in eounterbnlaneing the Weight, substantially as set forth.

Signel by us this 5th day of June, A. D. 1873.

C. F. AA. HINRIGHS. W. STAEHLEN.

Witnesses GEO. T. PINCKNEY, CEAS. I-I. SMITH. 

